# Women in Music (periodical)

Women in Music was an American newsletter founded in July 1935 by its publisher and editor, Frédérique Petrides, then the conductor of the Orchestrette Classique – an orchestra based in New York made-up of female musicians. The publication ran until December 1940. The thirty-seven extant issues were reprinted in the 1991 book by Jan Bell Groh, Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides. The newsletter title Women in Music was coined in 1935 by Petrides's husband, journalist, Peter Petrides to encapsulate the gist of its contents.

## History

Women in Music was founded in the summer of 1935 for the purpose of enlightening the public with little-known historical facts and current developments pertaining to female conductors, composers, instrumentalists, singers and women-led orchestras. Its scope was not limited to contemporary musicians – it chronicled the activities of female musicians from Ancient Egyptian times to the then present.
The publication was sent free-of-charge to newspaper and magazine editors, libraries, music schools, institutions, and individuals in New York and elsewhere. The publication had a circulation of over 2,500.
Major print media, including music journals, general magazines, and newspapers have cited Women in Music as a primary source for opinions, facts, and quotes. Some of the newspapers include The New York Times; The New York Sun; New York World-Telegram; New York Daily News; New York Post; The Baltimore Sun; Chicago Tribune; San Diego Union; Los Angeles Times; Press-Telegram; The Philadelphia Inquirer, and publications that drew articles from Everybody's Weekly syndication.
   "The Women in Music newsletters are the primary source for research done by musicologists on women in music." — Adrienne Fried Block, PhD (1921–2009), musicologist and choral director

## Extant issues

Published by “Orchestrette Classique,” 190 East End Ave., New York City
* Volume I July 1, 1935 Oscar Thompson, Rebecca Merit (Merritt), Hubay and Flesch, Ethel Leginska, Henry Holden Huss
* Vol. I, No. 2 August 1935 Fadettes, Caroline B. Nichols, Gertrud Hrdliczka, Eva Vale Anderson, Long Beach Woman's Symphony, Carmen Studer
* Vol. I, No. 3 September 1935 Thomas B. Aldrich, Gustave A. Kerker, Musical Mutual Protective Union of New York, Dr. Charles Burney, “Outline of a Prejudice”, Ebba Violette, Irene Sundstrom, Murielle and Portland Women's Symphony, Nikolai Sokoloff
* Vol. I, No. 4 November 1935 Women's String Orchestra, Camilla Urso, Lois Wann, Emma Steiner, Hans Kindler, Jeanette Evrard, Sandor Harmati, Woman's Symphony of Chicago (Chicago Woman's Symphony Orchestra), Arthur P. Schmidt, Eleanor Warner Everest Freer
* Vol. I, No. 5 December 1935 Luisa Tetrazini, Herliczka, Teresa Carreno, Henry T. Finck, Dame Ethel Smyth, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Maud Powell, Jenny Lind
* Vol. I, No. 6. February 1936 Caroline B. Nichols, Julia Smith, Antonia Brico, New York Women's Symphony, Harley Hamilton, Woman's Orchestra of Los Angeles, D. Cesar Cianfoni
* Vol. I, No. 7 March 1936 Sir Henry Wood, Marie Wilson, New York Ladies Ensemble, Musicians’ Union, Atlantic Garden Orchestra, Women's Little Symphony of Cleveland
* Vol. I, No. 8 May 1936 Long Beach (group), Gertrud Herliczka
* Vol. II, No. 1 July 1936 Stokowski, Girl Scout, Long Beach Woman's Symphony, Eva Anderson, Pittsburgh Woman's Symphony, Lady Folkestone, Grace Burrows, British Women's Symphony Orchestra
* Vol. II, No. 2 August 1936 Bembo, Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Women's Symphony
* Vol. II, No. 3 November 1936 Elizabeth Kuyper, Billboard, Jeannette Scheerer, Gena Branscombe, Jane Evrard
* Vol. II, No. 4 January 1937 Vienna Ladies Orchestra, Phil Spitalny, Evelyn (Spitalny), Ethel Bartlett, Rae Robertson, William Durieux, Long Beach (group)
* Vol. II, No. 5 February 1937 Georges Enesco, Ellen Stone, Carmelita Ippolito, Frederick Huber
* Vol. II, No. 6 March 1937 Jose Iturbi
* Vol. II, No. 7 April 1937 Jose Iturbi, British Woman's Symphony Orchestra, Helen Enser, Carmen Studer Weingartner
* Vol. II, No. 8 June 1937 Olga Samaroff, National Federation of Music Clubs, Berlin Women's Orchestra, Elizabeth Kuyper, Mathilde Ernestine, Federal Music Project, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
* Vol. III, No. 1 July 1937 William J. Henderson, Caroline B. Nichols, Louis Elson, Ruth Kemper, Commonwealth Women's Orchestra of Boston (WPA), Nino Marcelli’s San Diego Symphony, Lela Hammer, Woods Symphony Orchestra, Lois Wann, Virginia Payton
* Vol. III, No. 2 September 1937 Albert Roussel, Ebba Sundstrom, Herliczka, The New Yorker, Virginia Short, Chicago Women's Concert Band, Lillian Poenisch
* Vol. III, No. 3 October 15, 1937 Anne (or Anna) Mehlig Falk, George Schaun
* Vol. III, No. 4 December 1937 Sidney Lanier, Otto Klemperer, Saint Louis Women's Orchestra, Edith Gordon
* Vol. III, No. 5 January 1938 Fabien Sevitzsky, Bertha Roth Walburn Clark, Erno Rapee
* Vol. III, No. 6 February 1938 Leona May Smith, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Damrosch
* Vol. III, No. 7 April 1938 Gertrude Herliczka, Lonny Epstein, Carl Friedberg, Grace Kleinhenn Thompson Edmister, Kirsten Flagstad
* Vol. III, No. 8 June 1, 1938 Leopold Stokowski, Hans Kindler, Sidney Lanier, Musicians Union - local 802, Committee for Recognition of Women in the Musical Profession, Musical America, Serge Koussevitzky, Frederick Huber, William J. Henderson
* Vol. IV, No. 1 July 1938 Ethel Leginska, Teresa Carreno, Gladys Weige, Woman's Symphony of Chicago, Fanny Arnston-Hassler, Woman's Concert Ensemble
* Vol. IV, No. 2 September 1938 Ruth Kemper, Howard Barlow
* Vol. IV, No. 3 October 1938 Pauline Juler
* Vol. IV, No. 4 December 1938 Nadia Boulanger, Lonny Epstein, Edgar Carver's all-girl band, John C. Freund, Marian Anderson, William J. King, The New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Otto Hahn, Julia Smith
* Vol. IV, No. 5 January 1939 Nadia Boulanger, Brico Symphony, Billboard, Eleven Debutantes, Henriette Weber
* Vol. IV, No. 6 March 1939 Asger Hamerik, Nadia Boulanger
* Vol. IV, No. 7 April 15, 1939 Alicia Hund, Amy Fay, Hetty Turnbull, Albert Stoessel, Louise Angelique Bertin, Paul Creston
* Vol. V, No. 1 November 1939 David Diamond
* Vol. V, No. 2 December 1939 Izler Solomon, Ruth Haroldson, Heidi Sundblad-Halme, Alexander Richter
* Vol. V, No.3 February 1940 Erika Morini, Amy Marcy (Cheney) Beach, Elsa Hilger, Deems Taylor, Sophie Hutchinson Drinker, Drinker Library of Choral Music
* Vol. V, No. 4 April 1940 World's Center for Women's Archives, Inc.
* Vol. V, No. 5 September 1940 Stokowski, All-American Youth Orchestra
* Vol. VI, No. 1 December 1940 Caroline B. Nichols, Orchestrette Classique, Women in Music